Tuesday, August 28, 2007

You Too can embed YouTube on a Map

If you haven't seen the few maps with YouTube videos embedded, then here are a few links:

Real Housewives of Orange County
Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
Eastern Air Lines Sites
Kwik-E-Mart Locations

Now this feature is available to every Map Manager at Mapicurious.com. You need to find a video (It doesn't need to be your own, but it is always wise to ask permission), and copy the entry for URL from the YouTube site.

You'll get something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYALZWFfPO0

Take the video id (the combination of letters and numbers after ?v=) and paste it into the new YouTube Video ID field when you are editing your map.

You should see the video come up when the map reloads.

Enjoy this feature, and let me see some cool maps that integrate video!

Thanks,
Maps

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